Charlene Sally Collins

@OreoBrownie (3755)

Commerce, Georgia • Age 74

Joined myLot 11 years ago

I'm a retired nurse. I can no longer work due being disabled. Plus I'm older than dirt now lol. I'm light hearted. I love reading, and adult coloring.

Charlene Sally Collins's Discussions

Writing a daily nursing home personal diary

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 13 Mar 21

There are so many residents here, that my Unit Manager found it helpful for those of us who liked to write letters in print or cursive, we could write a daily diary letter to her and have the staff put them on her desk. Since I...

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Jerking related to kidney disease

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 13 Mar 21

I went to a neurologist for a nerve induction test. I don't know yet what the result of that came to be yet. However, the doctor told me that my shaking looked to be caused by kidney disease. So, I expect that I will be checked...

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4 people

Earnings for a friend

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 11 Mar 21

I love my friends. I'm shaking like I had the St Vitus Dance, so this is taking a great effort to get a decent discussion written and posted. Anyway, being a nursing home resident, I have no other choice but to leave my earnings...

earnings

friends

donat

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Cant find her Again!

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 11 Mar 21

Can't find her again I can't find her. My email pal. I don't know if something is wrong or not a lot of things have changed in our lives, so there is no way that I can know. I hate not being able to know what my family of...

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I'm snacking tonight

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 8 Mar 21

I have been unable to sleep. So I have been snacking on crackers and drinking Coke. My CNAs are so great to me. I asked for a snack and my seeing a brought me some crackers, some oatmeal pies, and two Cokes so I think I have...

snack

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My nurses and cna's so great

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 8 Mar 21

It's true, my nurses and CNAs are so wonderful to me. They take care of me so well. Tonight I was having a bad night with a lot of discomfort. My CNA gave me a knife bed bath, and my nurse gave me some Tylenol for pain. Well I...

nurses

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Use the talk feature

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 7 Mar 21

Today I am using the talk feature to make this discussion. It's not always easy for it to understand what I say. I guess it doesn't like the way I talk. I wish it understood better. But anyway, glad I have this way of making a...

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Nursing home life with Alzheimer's disease

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 28 Feb 21

Many of you know I live in a nursing home setting. It is a lot better than being at home, really. This is the second time I'm trying to enter a post. I wrote it all on the Mylot post page and promptly lost it and I could never...

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need forgiveness and being shunned

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 14 Jan 21

Please note that this is a long post. I took a lot of my brain power to write it. So, hii everyone. It has probably been a year or more since I have posted anything. First I will remind those who remember me that I reside in a...

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Good night friends

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 4 Sep 19

I will say goodnight. I took my night meds at 8:15 and I'm getting sleepy now. It has been a good day. I got my diet bumped up from mechanical chopped back to regular. I'm fixing to snack on my fruit I didn't eat at supper. It is...

goodnight

diet

fruit plate

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Staying off Facebook

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 4 Sep 19

I have decided to give social media, with the exception of Mylot, a rest. I have family that just want to use me as their whipping post. I put them on ignore on messenger, so that they cannot phone me. I'm putting distance between...

social media

mylot

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Possible cellulitis

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 2 Sep 19

I made a post about getting a chemical burn from hair removing cream. Since then I have incurred a serious closed wound on that same leg. My left leg had an involuntary kick and it struck the edge of the heavy door in my room....

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4 people

Chemical burn from depilatory

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 20 Aug 19

I wanted the hair gone off my legs, so I had my daughter put a cream depilatory on them. It started to burn before 3 minutes were up, but it want burning too awful much. So the hair didn't all melt off. I had her put a second...

depilitory

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Keeping a journal

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 15 Aug 19

I am keeping a journal of my feelings and everything that happens. I do this because my memory is very bad. If I don't write things down, I will forget whole days. I was neglected by a CNA that works with an outside agency to...

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Disaster struck Tuesday night

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 15 Aug 19

We had a flash flood due to a severe thunderstorm. The roof of our old section of the nursing home gave way in areas and it poured in the 2 units. A CNA took a video of it on her phone. She showed me when she checked on me. The...

disaster

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I see black and white dreams when awake

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 15 Aug 19

I am lying in bed, trying to go to sleep. I am at a place between being awake and being asleep, I think. I usually see people gathered somewhere and I can see them talking and gesturing. These people are too far away for me to...

sleep

trance

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I get drowsy with nebulizer treatments

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 15 Aug 19

I don't know why, but, every time I take a nebulizer treatment I get drowsy. Sometimes I actually go to sleep and wake up with the medicine dispenser empty because the treatment is finished. I also yawn when I take the mask off....

breathing treatments

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Almost lost my cool

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 7 Aug 19

Monday I was in bingo. There was this lady there that lives upstairs in the Alzheimers unit. She is very disruptive and has been violent before. Anyway, I played the first 2 games. She was getting on my nerves badly. She was...

anger

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Possible violation to our rights

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 23 Jul 19

The financial personnel want to move our trust funds over in the hospital financial office. If they do this, we want have access to our money. We are having a poll of the resident council to keep the financial office down on...

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Going to get labs and X-rays

Charlene Sally Collins @OreoBrownie (3755) • Commerce, Georgia 23 Jul 19

Yesterday I noticed that I had trouble getting on my feet to transfer to the toilet and to the wheelchair and back to bed. It just hurt, but I had no clue as to why. Last night my throw blankets were too much weight on my left...

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